Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and its fat ad revenues) are poised to be sold off…
Didn’t stop them in the decades even before the rise of the 'net allowing commerce.
You basically had three stations on TV, all of them owned by MNCs. You had PBS, most of it underwritten by big corps, and wiser boomers would call it Petroleum Broadcast System because of this.
Even still, the John Birch Society types - in other words, most Republicans and conservatives - would talk about the “liberal media”.
Didn’t stop them in the decades even before the rise of the 'net allowing commerce.
You basically had three stations on TV, all of them owned by MNCs. You had PBS, most of it underwritten by big corps, and wiser boomers would call it Petroleum Broadcast System because of this.
Even still, the John Birch Society types - in other words, most Republicans and conservatives - would talk about the “liberal media”.
I mean, what the actual fuck.